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EAST DEVON DISTRICT and AONB

Site Name Grid Ref Description File Code North Hill ST096063 Hillside track along Upper Greensand scarp ST00NE2 Tolcis Quarry ST280009 Quarry with section in Lower Lias mudstones and ST20SE1 Hutchins Pit ST212003 Chalk resting on Wilmington Sands ST20SW1 Sections in anomalously thick river gravels containing eolian ogical Railway Pit, Hawkchurch ST326020 ST30SW1 artefacts Estuary cliffs of Exe Breccia. Best displayed section of Permian Breccia Estuary Cliffs, Lympstone SX988837 SX98SE2 lithology in East Devon. A good exposure of the mudstone facies of the Sandstone and Estuary Cliffs, Sowden Lympstone SX991834 SX98SE3 Mudstone which is seldom seen inland Lake Bridge SX927978 Type area for Brampford Speke Sandstone SX99NW1 Quarry with sandstone and an excellent display of sand dune Sandpit Clyst St.Mary SX975909 SX99SE1 cross bedding Anchoring Hill Road Cutting SY088860 Sunken-lane roadside cutting of Otter sandstone. SY08NE1 Exposed deflation surface marking the junction of Uphams Plantation Bicton SY041866 SY0W1 Pebble Beds and Otter Sandstone, with ventifacts A good exposure of Otter Sandstone showing typical sedimentary Dark Lane Budleigh Salterton SY056823 SY08SE1 features as well as eolian sandstone at the base The Maer Exmouth SY008801 Exmouth Mudstone and Sandstone Formation SY08SW1 A good example of the junction between Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beggar Roost Quarry SY062941 SY09SE1 Beds and Otter Sandstone, with ventifacts Quarry with clean exposure of the calcareous faces of the Upper Dunscombe Manor Quarry SY160887 SY18NE1 Greensand Site showing the relationship between Middle Chalk and Upper Hole Pits SY191890 SY18NE2 Greensand Peak Hill & Mutters Moor Sidmouth/Otterton SY105880 Open pasture & forestry with Peak Hill gravel and Mutters Moor gravel SY18NW1 Rolling Stone Sidmouth SY146961 A sarsen monolith thought to have been a Neolithic way-marker SY19NW1 Higher Sweetcombe Wood Sidmouth SY163929 Thick, well exposed section of Loess SY19SE1 Hazelwood Roadside Branscombe SY205892 Quarried roadside exposure of Upper Greensand SY28NW1 Exposure Great Knowle Branscombe SY204893 Strike section of Upper Greensand Chert Beds SY28NW2 An excellent exposure of the terrace gravels of the , with the Kilmington Gravel Pit Kilmington SY275977 SY29NE1 characteristic exotic pebbles

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Pocombe Quarry (Exonia Exeter SX899913 Quarry with good exposure of Permian trachybasalt SX89SE1 Park) Ferry Road Exeter SX964883 River cliff exposure of Permian Dawlish sandstone SX98NE1 Brickpit Exeter SX954945 Quarry with best exposure of shaly Crackington Formation in Devon. SX99SE2 SX963915 & An excellent display of the large scale dune cross-bedding characteristic Bishops Court Quarry Exeter SX99SE3 SX965915 of the Dawlish Sandstone Heavitree Quarry Exeter SX949921 Quarry with good exposure of Heavitree Breccia SX99SW1 Asymmetric valley and steep headed dry valleys of probably Pleistocene Ludwell Valley Park Exeter SX945911 SX99SW2 age Exposures of terrace deposits indicating the former height extent of the SX940905 & Topsham Road Exeter during the Pleistocene, together with exposures of the SX99SW3 SX941905 Permian Heavitree Breccia Hamlin Lane – Whipton SX944930 & Exeter Alphington Breccia, Upper Permian SX99SW4 Playing Fields SX946929 SX911940 & Cowley Bridge Road Exeter Roadside cutting with Upper Crackington Formation SX99SW5 SX911941

MID DEVON DISTRICT

Site Name Parish Grid Ref Description File Code Knowle Quarry, SS789022 Quarry with exposures of Permian volcanic lava SS70SE1 Hayne Quarry SS714032 Quarry with exposure of Upper Carboniferous Bude formation SS70SW1 Chapel Downs Road Crediton SS820005 Road cutting with exposure of Crediton Breccia SS80SW1 Cutting Exposure of Newton St.Cyres Breccia on the sides of a deeply sunken Pit Hill Road Cutting Crediton Hamlets SS817002 SS80SW2 lane Blackborough Common / ST096090 Scarp hillside covered in bracken & woodland ST00NE1 Uton Quarry Crediton Hamlets SX823985 Quarry with volcanic lava resting on soft reddish Knowle sandstone SX89NW1

2/12 and NORTH DEVON AONB

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Windy Cove, Morte Point SS445454 Morte Slates with good examples of bedding cleavage SS44NW1 Pickwell Down Sandstone with folding, faulting & other Vyse Quarry Mortehoe SS490411 SS44SE1 structural features Good example of the more continental sediments of the Pickwell Down Sands SS448411 SS44SW1 Sandstones Type locality of the Carboniferous Codden Hill Chert. With structural Codden Hill Quarry Bishop’s Tawton SS569297 SS52NE1 features including faulting Lake Hamlet Road Cutting SS555317 Pleistocene pebbly Boulder Clay/Outwash Gravel glacial deposits. SS53SE1 Watermouth SS555483 Lester Slates-and-Sandstones SS54NE1 Devonian & calcareous slate & crinoidal with structural Hele Quarry SS533480 SS54NW1 features Rapparee Grove Ilfracombe SS528477 Slates and sandstones of the Kintisbury Slates SS54NW2 Ilfracombe SS535480 Limestones and slates of the Coombe Martin Slates SS54NW3 Tunnel Beach Ilfracombe SS513477 Good exposures of the lithology of part of the Kintisbury Slate SS54NW4 ‘Felsite’ Quarry, Type locality for the Devonian feldspathic tuff marking the base of the Bittadon SS550408 SS54SE1 Bittadon Pickwell Down Sandstone Bittadon ‘Felsite’ Quarry, Devonian feldspathic tuff marking the base of the Pickwell Down East Down SS597400 SS54SE2 Arlington Sandstone

PLYMOUTH

Site Name Parish Grid Ref Description File Code Bluff battery SX459543 Quarried outcrops with rich fossil fauna SX45SE1 Laira Battery Quarry Plymouth SX513562 Quarry with good exposure of Weard Sandstone SX55NW1 Mainstone Quarry Plymouth SX521587 Quarry with a Dolerite/gabbero sill SX55NW2 Bickleigh Vale Quarries Plymouth SX521594 Quarries & cuttings exposing an Elvan dyke. SX55NW3 Dorsmouth Rock & Quarry Plymouth SX538557 Pasture field with a natural outcrop and a small quarry. Upper Devonian SX55NW4 pillow lava Pomphlett Mill Quarry Plymouth SX507538 Middle Devonian Limestone, with fossils typical of the Plymouth SX55SW4 Limestone

3/12 and AONB

Site Name Parish Grid Ref Description File Code Point Wembury SX498484 Coastline, cliffs and foreshore SX54NW1 St Anchorite’s Rock SX591472 Cliff top tor & quarry, with basic igneous intrusion into Meadfoot Beds SX54NE1 Hemerdon Open Pit SX572584 Open-pit mine working, with Granite exposures SX55NE1 Tower’s Wood Tramway Sparkwell SX526587 Disused tramway cutting of Upper Devonian slate intruded by a dolerite sill SX55NW2 Cutting Elvan dyke, intruding the slate, with granite fragments showing it post dates Cann Quarry Sparkwell SX524596 SX55NW5 the Dartmoor Granite Lee Mill Sparkwell SX581555 Roadside cutting of Middle Devonian slate With fossils SX55NE2 St.Maurice A38 Roadside cutting with exposure of a fault and exposure of Upper Devonian Brixton SX545551 SX55NE3 Underpass slates Venn (Brixton) Quarry Brixton SX558524 Quarry with a good display of Devonian corals & stromatoporoids SX55SE1 New Quarry SX595545 Quarry with Gabbo intrusion into Middle Devonian Slate SX55SE5 Excellent section through a calcareous variant of Middle Devonian slate with Chittleburn Railway Cutting Brixton SX541526 SX55SW1 some tuffaceous beds Quarry used for brick making. Variations in the state of oxidation and iron Steer Point Brixton SX544507 SX55SW2 content. Spriddlestone Quarry Brixton SX540514 Quarry showing the second phase of Variscan folding in Devonian rocks. SX55SW3 Eastern Torrs (Elliot’s) Yealmpton SX587519 Middle Devonian limestone, with good evidence of structural relationships SX55SE2 Quarry Rounds Nest Quarry Yealmpton SX578514 Quarry of middle Devonian limestone and dolomite. Caves and a lime kiln. SX55SE3 Yealmbridge Quarry Yealmpton SX591518 Middle Devonian limestone with fold structures & deformation SX55SE4 SX534631 & Shaugh Iron Mine Unique in situ exposure of a limestone gossan lode & intrusive breccia SX56SW1 SX532632 Tor Rock Kingston SX636488 Natural tor outcrop of pinkish, acid igneous rock SX64NW1 Pipers Cross Quarry Kingston SX637488 Quarry of slate from Dartmouth group and igneous rock resembling rhyolite SX64NW2 North , Avon Estuary SX686470 Estuary cliffs SX64NE1 Horsewell House Quarry SX688421 A good example of Permian xposure & Devonian slates SX64SE1 The Shippen SX675401 The only good exposure of the Start boundary fault SX64SE2 South Sand Milton/South SX676416 Holocene barred valleys & deposits, sand dunes & coastal erosion SX64SE3 Huish Waterloo Quarry Ermington SX641537 Quarry of Dolerite with veins of Epidote & Tremolite SX65SW1 North Sands SX731381 Many of the features of the rocks & structures of the Start Complex SX73NW1 Rake Railway Cutting SX722478 Railway cutting SX74NW1 Hazard Quarry SX754591 Limestone quarry with caves. SX75NE1

4/12 SX773563 & Englebourne Quarry Harberton Small quarries with Middle Devonian slate & valuable fossil fauna SX75NE2 SX772564 An unusual & interesting outcrop of volcanic rock developed as a tor feature Berrystone Rock Harberton SX762584 SX75NE3 during the Pleistocene Harbeton Quarry Harberton SX776582 Volcanic tuff with unusual inclusions of limestone & slate SX75NE4 Lode in grey, glossy, well cleaved Lower Devonian Meadfoot slate, with Mine Loddiswell SX721515 SX75SW1 complex sulphide mineralisation Blackdown Rings The site provides a fine view point showing the broad geological features of Loddiswell SX720520 SX75SW2 (Blackdown Camp) the South Hams SX763673 & Quarries with grey-green, purple & green slate. Important because of its Penn Recca Quarries Staverton SX76NE2 SX762666 involvement in Medieval slate industry Dorsely Barton Quarry Harberton SX781604 An accessible open quarry exposing a larva flow SX76SE1 Bulkamore Iron Mine SX749631 Iron mine with openworks, adits, stopes & shaft SX76SW1 Petoe Quarry SX761608 Quarry with Middle Devonian limestone beds SX76SE2 Gate Strete SX840463 A good section in the slates & sandstones of the Dartmouth group SX84NW1 An excellent exposure of the thrust/fault structures characteristic of the Bourton Hall SX808616 SX86SW1 region Afton Tor Quarry Berry Pomeroy SX838632 Quarry with Middle Devonian Limestone and a cave SX86SW2 & the Erme Ivybridge SX636562 River Valley & gorge crossing the margin of Dartmoor Granite. SX65NW1 Valley Wash (Tor Hill Plantation) Staverton SX769655 The best xposure of vesicular basalt pillow larva in the South Hams SX76NE1 (Sunnydale) SX822415 Quarry with Lower Devonian Meadfoot beds SX84SW1 Quarry SX827565 – Bow Creek Good range of lithologies associated with the Ashprington Volcanics SX85NW1 SX839572 A wide range of lithological & structural geological features associated with Galmpton Quarries SX881561 SX85NE1 the limestone The quarry & foreshore show a wide range of lithological & structural Waddeton Quarry SX878560 SX85NE2 features associated with the Torquay limestone This coastal section shows a typical section of the Meadfoot beds lithology Scabbacombe Sands Kingswear SX918520 SX95SW1 with associated folding & faulting

TEIGNBRIDGE

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Viewpoint with view of large area showing varied topography and it’s Ledge Wood SX798791 SX77NE4 relationship to underlying geology East Ogwell limestone exposed along ridge within copse showing karst- Field nr Court Grange SX856683 SX86NE1 type jointed weathering 5/12 Whiteway Barton SX884752 Whiteway Slate (Carboniferous) in bank in farmyard SX87NE1 Disused sandstone quarry. Mainly sandstone with subordinate Ugbrook Park Quarry Kingsteignton SX869780 SX87NE2 conglomerates, siltstones and shales. Beds have basal solemark. Mount Pleasant Woods SX871786 Good upper Devonian Sedimentary sequence SX87NE3 Exposures of contact between Dartmoor Granite and shaly hornfels Whitstone Quarry Bovey Tracey SX815792 SX87NW1 (Combe shale) Kingsteignton Bypass Kingsteignton SX876740 Chercombe Bridge Limestone SX87SE2 Wolborough Quarry SX852705 Exposures of Ogwell limestone different to other nearby exposures SX87SE3 Haccombe with Sewage Works SX883721 Dolerite overlain by river terrace gravel and sand SX87SE4 Combe Haccombe with Netherton SX88727216 Pillow lavas within the Whiteway Slates SX87SE5 Combe Disused quarry with good exposures of Permian lavas and their School Wood Quarry SX875871 SX88NE1 relationship to sedimentary material Quarry with good exposure of Basalt Lava resting on both Carboniferous Knowle Quarry, Ide Ide SX874895 SX88NE2 & Permian rocks Holmans Wood Caravan Chudleigh SX882812 Former limestone quarry SX88SE1 Site Dillybridge Brook Tedburn St. Mary SX806937 Incised stream section with exposure of Crackington Formation. Fossils SX89SW1 Haccombe with Recumbent folding in Whiteway Slates showing bedding/cleavage Combe Cellars SX900723 SX97SW1 Combe relationship SX90977222 Red breccias and sandy breccias belonging to the Oddicombe Breccias Arch Brook Creek to SX97SW3 in close proximity to Whiteway Slates. Landslipping near junction in cliff SX90997228 Shaldon SX93957201 Red breccias, sandstones and mudstones of the Breccias SX97SW4 SX92167304 Red breccias of the Oddicombe Breccias, containing abundant clasts of Teignmouth Road Cutting to SX97SW5 limestone along with sandstone clasts SX92657292 Red breccias of the Oddicombe Breccias, containing limestone clasts SX89967284 and sandstone, quartz porphyry, sandstone, slate & basic igneous Luxton’s Steps Bishopsteignton to SX97SW6 clasts. Exposures also occur of the Luxton Nodular Limestone which is SX90427282 separated by a fault from the Oddicombe Breccias. Wobbly Wheel Road Shillingford St. Permian Heavitree Breccia with granitic fragments probably derived from SX917872 SX98NW1 Cutting George Dartmoor Permian Heavitree Breccia. Massive, worked for the typical local building Quarry Exminster SX945883 SX98NW2 stone Roadside cutting of Dawlish sandstone indicating a semi-arid or desert Kenton Hill Kenton SX958834 SX98SE1 palaeoclimate. cutting Haldon Road cutting exposed Upper Greensand (Blackdown Facies) resting Kenn SX905840 SX98SW1 Hill unconforrmably on Teignmouth Breccia (Permian)

6/12 and SOUTH DEVON AONB

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Important exposures of the bioclastic Barton Member of the Torquay Barton Quarry Torbay SX913671 Limestone Formation The only significant outcrops of intrusive igneous rocks in the Torbay Black Head-Anstey’s Cove Torbay SX940645 District Cavern Torbay SX925557 A historically important source of Pleistocene vertebrate remains Churston Cove-Churston A thrust-bounded section through the Cherston Member (Frasnian) the Torbay SX920569 Point highest division of the Berry Head Limestone Formation A wll-known exposure of a relatively late (i.e. post Variscan) north-south Crystal Cove Torbay SX896580 fault zone associated with a remarkable 25m wide zone of crystalline calcite Sandstone dominated sequence within the breccias and conglomerates Hollicombe Head-Corbyn’s Torbay SX898619 of the Torbay Breccia Formation, including the stratotype of the Corbyn’s Head head Member, of regional lithostratigrafical importance A well-known structural feature in thinly bedded limestones and shales Hope’s Nose (south) Torbay SX947633 of the Daddyhole Member of the Torquay Limestone Formation Petit Tor – Maidencombe Stromatoporoid-rich limestones of the Walls Hils Member of the Torquay Torbay SX927663 (a) Limestone Formation A good exposure of the thickly bedded sandstone of the Staddon Grit Quarry Woods Quarry Torbay SX89956315 and the thin slaty beds between Sharkham Point to Berry Torbay SX930544 ? Head (a) Sharkham Point to Berry Spectacular folds in the Middle Devonian, Berry head Member of the Torbay SX943562 Head (b) Brixham Limestone Formation Haematite replacement of Devonian Limestone, associated with Sharkham Point to Berry Torbay SX933548 limestone breccias and localised developments of botryoidal goethite, Head © limonite and haematite Sharkham Point to Berry Torbay SX935567 Caves with associated deposits, unique in the region Head (d) Middle Devonian Limestone with corals, stromatoporoids & burrows. Road Cutting SX892581 & Torbay Dated by a fauna of conodonts. Shows structural features & a SX85NE1 and Quarry SX893581 fault/solution fissure with Permian infilling. Brokenbury Quarry, Middle Devonian foliated & partly dolomitised limestone with crinoid Torbay SX897563 SX85SE1 stems in shaly beds. Late upright folds refold foliation/bedding. Barcombe Mews Quarry Torbay SX887620 Permian breccia with depositional features SX86SE1 Breakwater Quarry, Middle Devonian limestone with fissures filled by Permian sandstone Torbay SX932565 SX95NW1 Brixham containing limestone blocks. Limestone solution features.

7/12 Permian breccia with limestone fragments abutting against middle Chapel Hill Torbay SX903651 SX96NW1 Devonian Limestone palaeotopography Lower Devonian Staddon Grits. Thisckly bedded fine-grained sandstone Quarry Woods Quarry Torbay SX900631 with structural features. Of interest for conservation in onjunction with SX96SE1 the Quarry Woods Reserve

TORRIDGE and NORTH DEVON AONB

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Carboniferous Crackington Formation. The fossiliferous Embury Shale Colpit Quarry, Hartland Hartland SS279249 SS22SE1 with Gastrioceras subcrenatum exposed on a major fault line

Hartland Quay Hartland SS224250 Top Crackington Formation and marine shales SS22SW1

Carboniferous Bude Formation sandstone & shale with sediment Mill Quarry Bradworthy SS318143 SS31SW1 features, plant remains & folding Devon (Culm) facies of the Upper Carboniferous through the Namurian Coast Clovelly SS310257 SS32NW1 Westphalian boundary with fossiliferous horizons containing goniatites Portledge Peppercombe Permo-Triassic ‘red beds’ unconformably overlying folded Bude SS383245 SS32SE1 Permian Outlier Formation SS438100 & Devil’s Stone, Shebbear Isolated Tertiary quartzite boulders of uncertain source & origin SS40SW1 SS438092 View of terrace features of the & outcrops of Barley Grove, Torrington SS497188 SS41NE1 Carboniferous Bude Formation sandstone & shale Carboniferous Bude Formation sandstone & shale with a fold & other Rosemoor Quarry St. Giles in the Wood SS502175 SS41NW1 structural features Carboniferous Bude Formation sandstone, shale & mudstone with Beam Quarry, Monkleigh SS470206 SS42SE1 sedimentological features, folding & river terraces Tidal mud flat and sand deposits crossed by a shifting meandering Appledore Tidal Flats Northam SS453306 SS43SE1 channel Upper part of the Crackington Formation with examples of two of the Embury Harbour Hartland SS215197 SS21NW1 main marine shales and a slump bed

8/12 and TAMAR AONB

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Petrockstowe Basin with Tertiary (Oligocene) fluviatile clay (ball clay) Friars Hele Cross SS536070 SS50NW1 sand and lignite deposits SS591022 River section with associated river valley geomorphological features SS50SE1 Quarry with Devonian Limestone pebbles contained within breccio- Solland Quarry SS615021 SS60SW1 conglomerate George And Charlotte Mine SX452698 The only preserved mine in the Tamar Valley SX46NE2 Estuarine cliffs showing the best and cleanest exposures of the Tavy Hole's Hole To Hooe SX428654 SX46NW1A Formation in its type area Estuarine cliffs showing the best and cleanest exposures of the Tavy Hole's Hole To Hooe Bere Ferrers SX425660 SX46NW1B Formation in its type area Estuary shore exposures showing key exposures of the Upper Devonian Thorn Point to Tavy Bridge Bere Ferrers SX445623 SX46SW1 sucession of the Plymouth District and lower Tamar Valley South Tamar Consols Bere Ferrers SX435645 Representative of the geology of the silver-lead mines SX46SW2 One of the most important and extensive exposures within the Upper Railway Cutting Tavistock SX475743 SX47SE1 Devonian-Lower Carboniferous sequences of West Devon St. John's Avenue Carpark Tavistock SX480740 Vertical sections in Lower Carboniferous sucession SX47SE2 Wheal Anna Maria Gulworthy SX426736 Copper mine with evidence of chalcopyrite SX47SW1A Wheal Anna Maria Gulworthy SX426734 Copper mine with evidence of chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite SX47SW1B Bedford United Mine Gulworthy SX441726 The most diverse range of copper secondary minerals in Devon SX47SW2 Frementor Mine Gulworthy SX424724 The only surface exposures of Gunnislake granite body in Devon SX47SW3 Coryton Quarry Coryton SX466849 Quarry showing Lower Carboniferous slate of good quality SX48SE1 Chillaton and Hogstor Mine SX438811 Former manganese mine with pyrolusite, rhondonite and rhondochrosite SX48SW1 SX658947 & Quarries with exposure of Meldon Chert Formation limestones. Quarries South Tawton SX69SE2 SX657951 Woodland & areas of water

DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK

Site Name Parish Grid Ref Description File Code Buckland Cormer copper mine famous for well crystalised minerals e.g. Virtuous Lady Mine SX472697 SX46NE1 Monachorum arsenopyrite, pyrite, anatase and capped quartz Legis Tor, Hen Tor SX570655 Granite tors with elvan dykes SX56NE1 Great Trowelsworthy Tors Shaugh Prior SX578644 A fine exposure of the trowelworthite Dartmoor Granite SX56SE1 Fine exposures of small feldspar megacrystic variant of the Dartmoor Dewerstone SX536638 SX56SW2 Granite

9/12 Sweltor & Foggintor SX566735 Quarry with typical non-megacrystic and megacrystic granite SX57NW1 Quarries Wheal Friendship SX504793 Former copper mine and source of crystals of arsenopyrite and pyrite SX57NW2A Wheal Friendship Mary Tavy SX508793 Former copper mine and source of crystals of arsenopyrite and pyrite SX57NW2B Exposures of typical agglomerate and dolerite in the Lower Tors Sourton SX542898 SX58NW1 Carboniferous sucession north of Dartmoor Wheal Betsy Mary Tavy SX509811 Former mine showing examples of arites gtion with rarer elements SX58SW1 & A38 Road cuttings at interchange with Middle Devonian slate and exposures South Brent SX695591 SX65NE1 Interchange of Head Good exposures of calc-silicate hornfels with a characteristic mineral Wrangaton Moor Gate SX676581 SX65NE2 assemblage Erme Valley (within the SX631589 SX65NW1B DNP) Lydia Bridge, South Brent South Brent SX695606 Good exposure of skarn (calcium-iron silicate) SX66SE1 Tor Dartmoor Forest SX644764 Granite tor with well developed tabular jointing and gullies and clitter SX67NW1 Powder Mills (Higher Dartmoor Forest SX634770 Granite quarry SX67NW2 Cherry Brook) Widecombe in the Corndon Tor SX686741 Fine-grained granite and megacrystic granite SX67SE1 Moor SX660707 A good example of stream tin workings SX67SW1 The only location where aplitic rock of possible sendimentary origin may Tor Gidleigh SX671877 SX68NE1 be seen clearly A good example of a Dartmoor tin mine with both open workings and Golden Dagger Mine SX680803 SX68SE1 underground mining Birch Tor & Vitifer SX681810 Probably the best example of a major Dartmoor tin working SX68SE2 Ramsley Mine South Tawton SX651931 Former Copper mine with mine dumps on a moorland hillside SX69SE1 SX658947 & Quarries with exposure of Meldon Chert Formation limestones. South Tawton Quarries South Tawton SX69SE2 SX657951 Woodland & areas of water Cleave & Ivy Tor South Tawton SX627935 A good section in the Lower Carboniferous including the volcanoes SX69SW1 Belstone Consols Mine with minerals characteristic of the metasomatic north Dartmoor Belstone SX632944 SX69SW2 (Greenhill) mineralisation section Belstone SX607938 Good exposure of Meldon Slate with Lenticles Formation SX69SW3 Upper Devonian grey Kate Brook Slate intruded by Permian Holne Road SX736664 Lamprophyre, and purple and green Gurrington Slate intruded by SX76NW1 Devonian basic rock Brookwood Mine SX714675 Complex and interesting sequence of arites gtion formation SX76NW2 Slipping Stones Quarry SX789764 A good example of a south Dartmoor copper mine SX77NE1 Yarner (Yarrow) Mine Bovey Tracey SX782783 A good example of a south Dartmoor copper mine SX77NE2 Widecombe in the Bonehill Rocks SX731774 A good example of zenoliths and coarsely megacrystic granite SX77NW1 Moor 10/12 Ramshorn Down SX790740 A good exposure of the Mount Ararat Chert and the Rora Slate SX77SE1 Lurgecombe Ashburton SX756713 Good exposure of lamprophyre dyke SX77SE2 Holne Bridge Holne SX730705 The best example of a thrust relationship in Dartmoor SX77SW1 Widecombe in the Leigh Tor SX711714 A good example of quartz/tourmaline rock arites g outside the granite SX77SW2 Moor Blackingstone Rock SX786856 Large tor-type outcrop of Dartmoor granite SX78NE1 Higher Knowle Wood SX790808 A well exposed example of Palagocene fluviatile deposits SX78SE1 Wormhill Bridge North Bovey SX720847 A rare exposure of a NW-SE faulting cutting the granite SX78SW1 Blackaller Quarries SX730911 ? SX79SW1 Parford Wood, Drewsteignton SX713902 An interesting example of Tertiary alluvial tin working SX79SW2 Drewsteignton Coombe Farm Quarry Drewsteignton SX719900 Megacrystic granite in contact with hornfels SX79SW3 A good section in Teign Chert and one of the few examples of a arites Bridford Barytes Quarry Bridford SX829865 SX88NW1 vein Heltor Rock Bridford SX800870 A granite tor with megacrystic granite SX88NW2 Scatter Rock Quary & Bridford SX822856 Important locality for calc-silicate mineralisation SX88NW3 Scatter Rock Great Rock Mine SX827815 Granite containing micaceous haematite SX88SW3

EXMOOR NATIONAL PARK

Site Name Parish Grid Ref Description File Code Wild Pear Beach SS5820414778 Devonian Wild Pear Slates and Hangman Grits SS54NE2 Combe Martin Point To Combe Martin SS5761714741 Type locality for Devonian Lester Slates and Sandstones SS54NE3 Lester Point Woody Bay SS6768514899 Transition Beds – Hangman Grits SS64NE2 Transition Lynton Slates – Hangman Grits; fossils and sedimentary Heddons Mouth And River Martinhoe SS6554914965 SS64NE3 structures including good convolute bedding Heddon Valley Martinhoe SS6548414909 Valley-side screes associated with the Hangman Grits SS64NE4 Great Burland Martinhoe SS6670514940 Transition Lynton Slates – Hangman Grits SS64NE5 Martinhoe/Lynton and SS6937914918 Devonian Lynton Slates; sedimentology and trace fossils SS64NE6 Holdstone Down Combe Martin SS6198914770 Periglacial polygonal soil patterns SS64NW7 Roadside Challacombe SS6957914106 Devonian Kintisbury Slates SS64SE1 Balls Cross SS7709213135 Sandstone slopes, north-south gorges transecting Variscan structures SS73SE1 Active goyle with exposures of Hangman Grits of sedimentological Shilstone SS7617314674 SS74NE4 interest

11/12 Devonian Lynton Beds leading into the Hollowbrook Formation of the Road Cutting SS7044914773 SS74NW1 Hangman Sandstone Group Cheriton Brendon SS7385814642 Devon Hangman Grits SS74NW10 Lynmouth Seafront Lynton and Lynmouth SS7199514981 Devonian Lynmouth Slate; sedimentological interest SS74NW11 East Lyn Group Lynton and Lynmouth SS7319814910 Devonian Lynton Slates and Hangman Grits SS74NW2A East Lyn Group Lynton and Lynmouth SS7326814884 Devonian Lynton Slates and Hangman Grits SS74NW2B East Lyn Group Lynton and Lynmouth SS7339614870 Devonian Lynton Slates and Hangman Grits SS74NW2C East Lyn Group Countisbury SS7452614880 Devonian Lynton Slates and Hangman Grits SS74NW2D East Lyn Group Lynton and Lynmouth SS7340014905 Devonian Lynton Slates and Hangman Grits SS74NW2E East Lyn Group Countisbury SS7455014885 Devonian Lynton Slates and Hangman Grits SS74NW2F East Lyn Group Lynton and Lynmouth SS7440014886 Devonian Lynton Slates and Hangman Grits SS74NW2G East Lyn Group Brendon SS7460014860 Devonian Lynton Slates and Hangman Grits SS74NW2H East Lyn Group Countisbury SS7472014874 Devonian Lynton Slates and Hangman Grits SS74NW2I East Lyn Group Brendon SS7430014810 Devonian Lynton Slates and Hangman Grits SS74NW2J East Lyn Group Lynton and Lynmouth SS7430014820 Devonian Lynton Slates and Hangman Grits SS74NW2K East Lyn Group Lynton and Lynmouth SS7290014900 Devonian Lynton Slates and Hangman Grits SS74NW2L Point Perilous Lynmouth Lynton and Lynmouth SS7287214964 Devonian Lynton Slates; sedimentology and fossils SS74NW3 Lynton-East Lyn Fault exposed in cliffs bringing Devonian Lynton Ninney Well Bay Lynton and Lynmouth SS7347114962 SS74NW5 Slates against Hangman Grits Valley Of Rocks Lynton and Lynmouth SS7117014952 Devonian Lynton Slates; sedimentology and fossils SS74NW6 Shallowford Lynton and Lynmouth SS7134714519 Dip and scarp topography SS74NW7 Glen Lyn Gorge Lynton and Lynmouth SS7224914918 Devonian Lynton slates exposed SS74NW8 The Foreland Countisbury SS7477615027 Devon Hangman Grits including plant remains SS75SE1 Silliery Sands Lynton and Lynmouth SS7412514983 Devon Hangman Grits with sedimentological and tectonic interest SS79NW9

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